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Savannah Morning  News March 5, 1890
                            NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                                  5 MARCH 1890
     Americus Recorder: About two years since Sheriff Bass purchased a piece of
property on the corner of Lee and Finn streets, which had a frontage of about
200 feet on Lee street, for $1,500.00. Monday John Windsor purchased 75 feet
frontage on Lee street and one lot fronting for 45 feet on Finn street, paying
for them $1,500.00. Mr. Bass retains a lot fronting 125 feet on Lee street, on
which is a neat cottage. The property has trebled in value during the past two
years. Mr.Bass' bargain might have been worse, for at the present he has
received $500.00 in excess of the amount he invested in the property, has
received rents for two years, and still has one of the finest residence lots in
the city.
     Little Winona Morgan of Leesburg, while playing a few days ago, got a very
ugly and painful splinter in one of her fingers, cried incessantly with it for
some time, and would not allow any one to get it out. Finally her mother came in
and tried to prevail on her to let her pick it out, but she obstinately refused.
Her mother said she would give her a nickle if she would let her pick it out, to
which the child agreed. The splinter was soon extracted. The little child
grinned and endured the operation as best she could. After the thing was all
over she demanded the nickel. Her mother told her that she was not going to give
her a nickel for that, where upon; Winona cried: "out the splinter back, mamma,
put the splinter back." and insisted it should be done.
     Fifteen hundred acres of land are planted in watermelons in Dougherty and
surrounding counties. On almost the whole of this acreage the young plants have
come up. The growers reported an early and unusually good stand, but this week's
cold wave got in its work in great shape, and where Saturday there could be
found a green watermelon vine, with runners starting out all over it, there can
now be found nothing but a browned, twisted mass. The vines are all dead.
Heretofore, Florida growers have put their melons on the market from one to
three weeks before the Georgia melons were ready. Now that replanting is
necessary both states will start on an equal footing, and it will be nip and
tuck as to which gets in the first melons and consequently, reaps the richest of
the harvest. The delay so the crop is variously estimated from one to six weeks.
A well posted melon man says that it will take $2,000.00 to replant the vines
that were killed in this action, not counting the loss that will be occasioned
by the lateness of the melon crop in being placed on the market. 
                                  GEORGIA THRIFT
     It is alleged that an Atlanta man is investigating the advisability of
establishing a glass factory in Brunswick.
     Four million two hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars has been invested
in Americus enterprises in less than two years.
     Covington Star: Newton county has enough granite to pave with Belgian
blocks every foot of the public road in the county, and have enough to spare to
make the owners rich besides. We have just "millions of it," and but little of
it is being quarried.
     A Ohio man wants to come to Americus and start a spoke and hub factory,
guaranteeing to sell its output before it is made. He has money he will invest
in it, and con command more. He says such a factory will employ from 100 to 150
hands, and pay from $1,000.00 to $1,200.00 per week in wages, not to mention
lumber used.
     At Cordele Monday John J. Wheeler sold hi slot on the corner of Thirteenth
street and Fifth Avenue to W. E. Smith for $1,500.00. The lot faces fifty feet
on Fifth Avenue and 100 on Thirteenth street. This is one of the best sales that
has been made in Cordele. Mr. Wheeler gave the trustees of Cordele $100.00 for
the lot about twelve months ago. 

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